Call summary :

Scope:

The European Prize for Humanitarian Innovation celebrates the humanitarian organisations, social enterprises, and companies that are developing technology to deliver better quality assistance to vulnerable people affected by natural disasters and man-made crises such as conflicts. The prize recognises innovations and the organisations that develop them so that they may inspire other humanitarian actors to scale up actions that allow more effective and efficient delivery of humanitarian assistance. The prize will be awarded to the organisations that have developed and are deploying innovative solutions for the delivery of humanitarian aid, that are cost-effective, simple to use and re-use, scalable in different humanitarian aid settings and sectors such as shelter, water and sanitation, energy, heating or cooling, food, hygiene, protection, natural disaster risk reduction and health care and based inter alia on the application of digital technologies. Solutions should be tested and proven use cases of disruptive innovation, aimed at changing the paradigm and promoting more efficient humanitarian aid delivery and based on advanced technologies and services, including digital technologies demonstrating the added value and potential of one or more advanced technologies. The prize will be awarded to eligible organisations from across the EU and countries associated to Horizon Europe, who have transformed their ideas into disruptive innovations which provide assistance to vulnerable people affected by humanitarian crises.

Expected Impact:
Supporting the development and scaling of disruptive innovations with the potential to deliver a more cost-effective, sustainable and higher-quality aid delivery, leading to an optimised use of humanitarian funding and an enhanced response to urgent needs in a humanitarian aid settings, notably for those in a most vulnerable situation, in areas such as shelter, water and sanitation, energy, heating or cooling, food, hygiene, protection, natural disaster risk reduction and health care.

1. Admissibility conditions:
- Applications must be submitted before the call deadline.
- Applications must be submitted electronically via the Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System (accessible via the Topic page in the Search Funding & Tenders section). Paper submissions are not possible.
- Applications (including supporting documents) must be submitted using the forms provided inside the Submission System (not the documents available on the Topic page — they are only for information).
- Applications must be complete and contain all the requested information and all required supporting documents:
* Application Form Part A — contains administrative information about the applicant organisations (to be filled in directly online)
* Application Form Part B — contains the technical description of the application (to be downloaded from the Portal Submission System, completed and then assembled and re-uploaded)

Your application must be readable, accessible, printable.

Proposal page limits and layout: applications are limited to maximum 20 pages (Part B). Evaluators will not consider any additional pages.

2. Eligible participants: In order to be eligible, the applicants must comply with the following criteria:
- Eligible applicants are any humanitarian non-governmental organisation, international organisation, and/or legal entity established in one of the Member States (including overseas countries and territories, OCTs) or a country associated to Horizon Europe.
- Applicants that have already received an EU or Euratom prize cannot receive a second prize for the same activities.

3. Evaluation and award:

Award criteria, scoring and thresholds:
- Award criterion 1: Innovative solution– An innovative solution tested successfully and safely in a humanitarian aid environment and on a sufficient scale, with a demonstrated potential of adaptability and scalability under different humanitarian aid settings and responding to the needs of those in a most vulnerable situation (taking age, gender, disability, and minority into consideration).
- Award criterion 2: Quality and sustainability – Quality and sustainability of the solution based on the application of advanced, technologies including digital technologies, by demonstrating improved robustness and quality of response compared to existing solutions and by taking account scarcity of resources and potential environmental impacts.
- Award criterion 3: Affordability and cost-effectiveness – Affordability and cost-effectiveness for beneficiaries and organisations responding to crisis, meaning a better value for money compared to existing solutions (considering notably th